zazouswing
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| MM, MC, or MI cartridge @rauliruegas - I believe I have a very different understanding of compliance than you. Firstly, compliance as I understand it is largely measurement of vertical suspension. I have several low compliance mono cartridges and I am accustom to dealing... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Maybe the Slits version of Heard It Through the Grapevine could be on this list. Sam Gopal’s Back Door Man (the original is fine, but just fine). Also, Nina Simone’s Love Me or Leave Me. | |
| How Audiphiles are Different Ah - the human condition - audiophile installment. Great stuff. We can’t go on; we must go on. | |
| Getting a new electrical panel for the house. Like @audioman58 indicated - see what they can do to up their ground. We use 200% neutral panels. Double ground is similar idea. I’d also add a nema pullbox just as they leave the panel and run the building ground through it. This would give som... | |
| Why do hipsters prefer analog? I dunno - why do old audiophiles like such terrible music? The point being, the question was doomed from the start. It takes a generalization (hipsters) and leads into a unfalsifiable claim of preference (prefer analog). This is covered in Philos... | |
| 33rpm vs 45rpm - which is better Never dived into the 45 vs 33 question - but I always found 78's were the best compared to a 33 of the same song. I assumed this was because faster speed = longer groove = the ability for more information to be captured in the cut. Applying that l... | |
| The vanishing stereo rack Amazing - you can’t even see the slot where the records go in. | |
| Politics and Music Musical problems deserve musical solutions and political problems deserve political solutions. Musicians at times may use politics, just as politicians at times use music This doesn’t make musicians experts in politics any more than it makes poli... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? I believe there are several missing parts here. One would be time. A measurement is a snapshot. You run a test tone through a circuit and measure what comes out the other end. To measure something like ‘space between instruments in a sound stage’,... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding As far as albums I’ve come around to- Amon Dull 2 Dance of the Lemmings. I got this when I was 16 and hated it for about 2 years. Now it’s one of my all time favs. | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding So… The Beatles. They found a formula - the secret key to making good harmonies - but it somehow always comes off as unauthentic. The early work is better, but still maybe I can listen to 1 song per album. For a comparison of their various incarna... | |
| Linlai E 6sn7 tubes I’ve always stuck with Grant. Running Linlai 6SN7 Globes in my preamp now. They’ve been in for about 2 months. I have an unusual setup - and all I can say is they provide more of what you’ve got. With open baffles there more air and separation. W... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Hi-fi amplification is a process of limiting factors. If any single component in the signal path muddles up the sound, no other component is going to come along and put the sound back together. It could very well be the case that, because of your ... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings Great tread. I have no good examples to add - just that I've always felt the piano is the most difficult instrument to get right. I've always believed this was because of the sheer size of the instrument and how easily that sized instrument can go... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @big_greg +1 for Mercury Rev. Saw them with my wife before we were married. Saw them with my wife again about a month ago - at least 25 years later. They still sound incredible. Pink Floyd - new release of Piper in mono JasStereo - High Stan... |